Chapter 361: Not an Illusion

Chapter 361 Not an Illusion
Then Mark, without a second thought, pushes Saul and runs away, and warns him that if he doesn’t want to live, he can stop.

Saul didn’t hold his ground and didn’t leave. Before he was clear about the enemy’s power, he wasn’t going to let run or not run like a ghost movie cannon fodder.

Of course, the Mark in front of him wasn’t quite normal, but the energy coming from the other party was a solid third level apprentice.

Saul thought to himself that punching a third level apprentice would still be easy for the current him.

Not to mention that there were four Consciousness Bodies around him.

Therefore, although Saul was now running in a sorry state – because the Flight Technique was at most three to five meters off the ground, and each of these heavenly ancient trees around him were dozens or hundreds of meters tall, with jagged branches and tangled vines, he was not as fast at flying as he was at running – he was still very calm inside.

Several consciousness body containers can store even less magic power, all expressionless and followed Saul all the way to run wildly.

Moreover, while running, Mark purposely instructed Saul not to use his spiritual power easily here.

Saul understood what Mark meant.

Just now, he had simply detected the energy fluctuations in Mark’s body, and realized that his spiritual body was beginning to tremble.

This small tremor didn’t calm down with the passage of time, but rather it stayed at its original frequency.

At the moment, although it did not delay Sol from casting sorcery, if the tremor intensified and there was a delay in recovering, then sooner or later, Sol would be deprived of his greatest reliance, the Soul Dropping and Consciousness Platform.

Several people ran for a long time, almost an hour, before stopping to rest in an empty meadow.

Even with their transformed bodies, the two third level sorcerer apprentices were still panting with exhaustion.

The containers were calm, they ran all on energy and not on their lungs.

It was just that running too much would consume magic crystals.

“When did Elder Mark get promoted to the third level? Haven’t congratulated you yet.” Sol slowed down for a few dozen seconds and straightened up to ask.

Mark looked over, the expression on his face was still vivid, “There’s nothing to congratulate you on, if you stay in the Elven Valley for ten days and half a month, you’ll be able to get a substantial promotion as well.”

Thor admitted that after the weightlessness he had just experienced, he found the concentration of elemental particles in the new world to be surprisingly high and surprisingly active.

Even if he didn’t meditate, those elemental particles that suited him were popping into his body one after another.

Just by running for a while, he felt that his magic power value had increased a little.

But Saul believed that the gift of everything had long been marked with a price in the dark. Such an easy upgrade was bound to harbor a huge hidden danger.

When Mark stopped at the empty area of the grass where the sunlight could shine directly, he asked somewhat strangely, ”Are we ditching the enemy? Would it be too conspicuous in this place?”

Mark shook his head and smiled, “This is our safe zone. Only in an open area like this will you not suddenly get a tap on the shoulder from anyone.”

Saul began to look around the small open space that was less than 5 meters in diameter.

Mark reminded him from the side, “Don’t think about cutting down trees, by creating an artificial clearing, what you cut down might not be a tree.”

Saul turned around stunned, the thought did just cross his mind.

“Are you saying that what I saw in the Elven Valley might have been an illusion?”

“No, not an illusion. Those plants and even the grass you stepped on under your feet could be sleeping elves.”

“Huh?” Sol lowered his head in surprise and lifted his paw to see in the center of his foot, a branch that had been broken by his stepping.

Elves, so worthless?
“It’s okay to destroy naturally between small actions, the plants here follow the laws of nature, constantly growing, aging, and decaying. But a big action will wake them up, you see when I just opened the road, I never used my sword to chop the trees and vines that blocked the path, didn’t I?”

“Is that so?” Saul crouched down and gently picked up the branches that he had stepped on and broken.

The branch’s break was the same as normal, the middle of the branch’s break was the brightest color, to the outside gradually deepening and aging into bark.

Saul carefully squinted his eyes and didn’t see anything unusual on the branch.

He slowly stood up and walked over to the edge of the clearing, reaching his hand out to a large gnarled tree that was the thickness of a closed arm.

“Be careful!” Mark warned him from behind.

But Saul couldn’t just listen to Mark for everything, he had to see this new world with his own eyes and senses.

Otherwise, he would be led by others.

Mark seemed to understand Saul’s concern, so he only spoke out to remind Saul, but didn’t stop him.

Saul placed his hand on the trunk of the tree and once again observed the texture and branches of the large tree. There was still nothing to be found.

But there was no way Mark was going to tease him with such a lame excuse.

This was the Valley of the Elves, the place rumored to have no return.

“Elder Mark,” Saul’s palm was still pressed on the tree trunk, and he turned back to ask Mark, “Since it’s safe for now for the time being, can you tell me about ……”

Saul’s voice suddenly stopped in the middle of his words, as he suddenly felt the rough bark under his palms turn into soft and delicate skin in an instant.

The tactile change was maintained too briefly, and it had changed back to a hard tree trunk before Saul turned around in shock.

Saul jerked his hand back, still remembering the warmth and softness of the skin between his fingers.

His heart skipped a beat and he took two steps back.

“Feel that.” Mark didn’t mean to mock him; he hadn’t been any better than Saul when he first came in.

“Sometimes I wonder if I’m hallucinating… Are these big trees, these flowers, these vines in front of me, are they all elves standing there in different poses? They might just be closing their eyes, and when they open them, they’ll see us intruding into the valley.”

Mark’s voice revealed a bit of fear.

Obviously staying in this place for a long time had also tightened his spirit.

Agu, came over and carefully checked the trunk of the tree, which he didn’t find.

“Master?” Although Agu’s face was expressionless, his voice carried doubt.

Sol calmed down.

It was important to learn to relax here, to accept all the anomalies he saw and treat them as ordinary everyday things.

This was so that the mental fluctuations would not be too great and cause the mental body to shake.

In the Valley of the Elves, concussions can’t be recovered from.

Calming down, Saul suddenly realized that Penny had disappeared.

He had no way to ask the others if they had seen Penny.

Because the four bodies of consciousness were in a semi-independent state after leaving the consciousness platform, such that they were unable to see the Nightmare Butterfly that existed only within Saul’s field of vision.

“Komoro?” Saul called out to Xiao Zao, but Xiao Zao also looked around and found nothing.

Saul opened the diary within his mental body again.

The silver bookmark was gone, but he felt like he could force it to come back if he called out to Penny, but Saul blinked and didn’t do so.

I’m sure Penny knew that it hadn’t escaped the diary’s grasp, so something must have happened to it if it didn’t appear at this point.

That something was not necessarily bad for Saul.

Saul decided to wait quietly, and if Penny called out to him for help through the diary, it wouldn’t be too late to pull the butterfly back.

He let out a long sigh, making himself look as if he had just come back from the shock.

“Mark-senpai, let’s continue where we left off.”

Understanding what Sol meant, Mark nodded and sat down cross-legged, relaxing his limbs as much as he could.

Saul also followed suit and sat down. And the four bodies of consciousness still stood around him, as if on guard.

Mark raised his head and swept the four in a circle, sighing, “Worthy of being the Tower Master’s pro-apprentice, it’s amazing that you can even bring bodyguards when you go out.”

Saul didn’t explain either, and Mark just sighed.

“I’ve been through so much these past few months, where do I start?”

Saul stared at Mark.

“Let’s start with that strange state you were in outside of the Elven Valley and the reason you returned to normal after entering it.”

(End of chapter)